Package-fastener



(No Model.)

T. T. H. HARWOOD.

PACKAGE FASTENER.

No. 405,775. Patented June 25, 1889.

N. vans. Phm-mno n nur. Washington, a. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

. THOMAS T. HUNTER HARIVOOD, OF ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAC KAG E-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,775, dated June 25,1889.

Application filed March 11, 1889. Serial No. 302,811. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS T. HUNTER HARWooD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Rockport, in the county of Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inPackage-Fasteners, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvementsin package-fasteners for thepurpose of providing a ready means for tying bundles, packages, papers,notes, books, &c.; and it is carried out as follows, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a plan view ofthe metal blank from which the fastener is made. Fig. 2 represents aplan view of the finished fastener, showing the cord in position whenthe bundle or package is tied. Fig. 3 represents a crosssection on theline a as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a modified formof thefastener-blank; and Fig. 5 represents, in plan view and longitudinalsection, a finished fastener made from the blank shown in Fig. 4. Figs.6 and 7 represent perspective views showing bundles, packages, orsimilar articles tied together by my improved device.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on thedifferent parts of the drawings.

In making my invention, I cut out from sheet metal a blank a, which maybe made of any suitable shape or form-such as, for instance, circular,as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 6, or rectangular or oval, as shown inFigs. at, 5, and 7, or of any other suitable form, as may be desired.

Through said blank near its edgeI make a perforation b, to which one endof the cord 0 is suitably secured, preferably by making a knot on theend of said cord and passing the latter through said perforation, or itmay be tied or otherwise secured without departing from the essence ofmy invention.

The blank (4 is slittcd at d d, and the ends of such slitted portionsare bent upward in the form of cleats or projections (l (1, around whichthe free end of the fastening-cord c is bent after being passed aroundthe package G, as shown in the drawings, and thus fastened without theneed of tying. In this manner a bundle, box, or package, or similararticle can be held together by passing the cord around it in, onedirection only, as shown in Figs. 5 and 7.

For the purpose of tying a bundle, package, &c., in cross directions, asshown in Fig. 6, I make slits e and f in the blank a, for the formationof the respective lips, guides, or projections e and f, (shown in Figs.2, 3, and (3,) and when it is desired to fasten the package in crossdirections the plate a is laid about midway on top of such package, andthe cord is carried once around it, then laid under the lips orprojections e f, and .then put around the package crosswise to the firstdirection and finally bent around and secured in a suitable manner tothe cleats or projections (Z (l, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6.

The device is very simple, light, cheap, and durable, and serves as aready means for inclosing and securing packages or other articleswithout the need of tying knots in the cord, and consequently thepackage can be untied in a quick manner, whenever so re quired, withoutuntying knots or cutting the cord.

Having thus fully described the nature, construction, and operation ofmy invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim The improvedfastening device, as described, consisting of the plate a, having madein one piece with it the cleats or projections (Z (I, combined with thecord 0, secured to said plate, substantially in a manner and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 6th day of March, A. D.1889.

THOMAS T. HUNTER HARWOOD.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDRE'N, SELMA R. SCHELIN.

